POLICY ON USE OF THE SCIPS DATA BASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01139A000200100022-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: October 21, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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CODIB-D-82/22
21 October 1963
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION
goli an Use of the SCIPS Data Base
statement on the use
1. Attached is the secrevision
to discussion iat the 17 October
of the SCIPS data base, prepared. suggested pursuant
by the Navy and NSA representatives
CODIB meeting . The Chang
is in para. 4.
2. The Director of Naval Intelligence also submitted the following comment:
~,Although paragraph 4 refers specifically to the subparagraphs of
SIT (Controlled Dissemi atiaongra material) that
DCII3 I/7 which states, .._._.-.-----SHALL
Par USIh 6 states . s that
NOT BE DISSEMINATED TO CONTRACTORS.'
access by contractor personnel shall be governed
Controlled
USIB-D-39.5/19 contains a provision which permits
ssi ion has
if special pe should
.dissemination to be released to contractors,
iaeen obtained in writing from the
1~7 should beTnotified that it has been
tae resolved, or holders of DC
amended, if such is indeed the case."
3. I do not feel that there is an inconsistency nhere. Th butasi i exceptionsc is
that Cow Dissem material should not go 4 tightly controlled, but parts of it may , may
be, Warranted. The SCIPSdata base must be to work. para. 7 of DCID 1/7
be most valuable in Community systems design put to the originator(sD;
allows for a case for exception on contractor ere ease procedures, including provision
USIB?D?89, s/19 elabor
for exceptions.
the Secretary of our agency or departmental
4. Action: please notify after which
approval of or comm8ut on this draft
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.
USIB formal approval will be soug
Attachment
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owngradiag and
declassification
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CODIB-D-82/22
21 October 1963
D UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
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A COMMITTEE ON DOCUMENTATION
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Policy on Use of the SCIPS Data Base
BLIPS Data Base
1, The information in the SCIPS Data Base was collected under the aegis
and for the use of USIB (CODIB-D-82/18, 1 Aug 62), The data base consists
of information obtained from some fifty organizational components of the various
USIB Departments and Agencies on the processing of substantive Intelligence
Information. The data base is in the form of exhibits, survey forms, punched
cards, magnetic tape files, and machine listings. The machined portion is
statistical information on the kinds and quantities of people, equipment, files,
processes, documents, and document movement in the intelligence community.
Access by USIB member Wencies for own use
2. The data was collected as an essential part of the study effort; it was
converted to machine language to facilitate its analysis. Furnishing member
agencies with useful data about themselves and the Community of which they
are a part is an implicit if not expressed part of the SCIPS survey. The
S-E-C- -T GROUP I
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
declassification
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by-products of such an undertaking were recognized as having considerable
potential significance for the participating agencies.
3. Accordingly, access to the data base by a USIB member agency will
be granted for its own use.
Security requirements
4. The machined portion of the database has e* over-all- olas&ffioatloo,
of -Special-Inteli enoe/Control4ed Diesei&/No Foreign-Dlssem-, -and will be
handled in accordance with Annex E of DCID 6/3: Special Intelligence Regu-
lations and DCID 1/7: Controls for Dissemination and Use of Intelligence
and Intelligence Information (New Series) 21 Feb 62, see especially para.
6. a (2).
5. Parts of the data under machine control are of low classification, and
can be handled accordingly.
Access by contractor personnel
6. Access to the data base by contractor personnel shall be governed by
USIB-D-39.5/19, 26 Aug 63, Final-USIB-Approved: USIB Policy on Release
of Intelligence to Contractors.
Holding of master files, computer pr rams and documentation
7. Master SCIPS files will be held by CIA, which will provide service
therefrom.
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S-E-C-R-E-T
Reproduction of files, computer programs and documentation
8. Duplicates of SCIPS files, programs, and documentation will, on request,
be made available to USIB agencies. The number of duplicate files or portions
thereof will be kept to a minimum commensurate with the needs of the various
agencies to conduct extensive research in the data.
Paul A. Borel
Chairman
S-E-C-R-E-T
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